Nbadan
07-02-2008, 05:50 PM
Costly immigrant crackdown
Maybe now people will stop believing that thousands of illegal immigrants are receiving public assistance in Kansas....
Kansas Medicaid director Andy Allison told state lawmakers that it cost the state $1 million to comply with new federal requirements that Medicaid recipients provide proof of citizenship, and that 20,000 eligible Kansans lost their health insurance because they had difficulty producing the required documentation.
So how many illegal immigrants did the state catch in this crackdown? One.
Link (http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/687894.html)
Maybe now people will stop believing that thousands of illegal immigrants are receiving public assistance in Kansas....
Kansas Medicaid director Andy Allison told state lawmakers that it cost the state $1 million to comply with new federal requirements that Medicaid recipients provide proof of citizenship, and that 20,000 eligible Kansans lost their health insurance because they had difficulty producing the required documentation.
So how many illegal immigrants did the state catch in this crackdown? One.
Link (http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/687894.html)